1 00:01:50,292 --> 00:01:52,042 Mama. 2 00:02:09,185 --> 00:02:11,351 How does this story begin? 3 00:02:14,522 --> 00:02:18,858 It begins like so many stories 4 00:02:19,903 --> 00:02:21,820 With a boy... 5 00:02:22,606 --> 00:02:26,032 too old to be a kid... 6 00:02:27,073 --> 00:02:31,077 too young to be a man. 7 00:02:35,315 --> 00:02:38,712 And a nightmare. 8 00:05:34,820 --> 00:05:37,754 It has two fundamental constants: 9 00:05:37,787 --> 00:05:41,501 E, the base of the natural logarithm system. 10 00:05:41,670 --> 00:05:45,069 It is a number. It is a number that emerges from our scheme. 11 00:05:45,219 --> 00:05:50,926 What is the mathematical function or thing which describes things... 12 00:05:51,094 --> 00:05:57,120 By the rate which they change is proportional to their magnitude? 13 00:05:57,632 --> 00:06:03,605 If you do that mathematically, it will give you this fundamental constant. 14 00:06:05,731 --> 00:06:08,234 Conor? 15 00:06:09,275 --> 00:06:11,821 You all right there, Conor? 16 00:06:11,985 --> 00:06:13,655 You look tired. 17 00:06:13,823 --> 00:06:15,692 Are you getting enough rest? 18 00:06:17,026 --> 00:06:18,288 Yeah, I'm fine. 19 00:06:18,796 --> 00:06:21,688 Because you know if you ever want to talk... 20 00:06:21,888 --> 00:06:23,580 I'm fine. 21 00:06:23,748 --> 00:06:25,581 Okay. 22 00:06:27,667 --> 00:06:30,462 Everyone, eyes front. 23 00:06:30,630 --> 00:06:34,718 Pi is the ratio of the circumference, and when it all... 24 00:06:34,882 --> 00:06:36,507 Careful, O'Malley. 25 00:06:36,675 --> 00:06:39,678 - You might fall. - Are you drunk or something? 26 00:06:39,846 --> 00:06:42,889 There will be a little kiss on his sick mother. 27 00:06:45,683 --> 00:06:49,355 You're always off in your own little dream world. 28 00:06:49,519 --> 00:06:53,066 And what's there? So interesting? 29 00:06:55,316 --> 00:06:58,279 Get up. 30 00:07:00,421 --> 00:07:05,077 You've been a good boy. Remember, O'Malley. 31 00:07:05,245 --> 00:07:08,248 Good boys don't talk. 32 00:07:33,737 --> 00:07:36,530 - Hey, Con. - Hey, mum. 33 00:07:40,241 --> 00:07:43,328 - What is that? - It's a surprise. 34 00:07:43,693 --> 00:07:47,958 - So this is a VCR? - This is much better than a VCR. 35 00:07:47,993 --> 00:07:50,846 It's your grandpa's old film projector. 36 00:07:51,219 --> 00:07:54,174 - There we go. - I wish you could have known him. 37 00:07:54,254 --> 00:07:55,487 Who? 38 00:07:56,009 --> 00:07:57,874 Grandpa. 39 00:07:58,726 --> 00:08:01,275 Even grandma was softened up around him. 40 00:08:01,377 --> 00:08:03,298 Yeah, all right. 41 00:08:04,455 --> 00:08:05,917 Here we go. 42 00:08:20,730 --> 00:08:23,148 What a bunch of assholes. 43 00:08:23,316 --> 00:08:25,675 Why are they trying to kill King Kong? 44 00:08:27,228 --> 00:08:30,655 People don't like what they do not understand. 45 00:08:32,355 --> 00:08:34,466 They get scared. 46 00:08:36,068 --> 00:08:38,902 King Kong could've just smashed them all... 47 00:08:39,371 --> 00:08:42,621 break them into a million pieces. 48 00:10:35,476 --> 00:10:38,478 Conor. 49 00:10:44,484 --> 00:10:46,902 Mum? 50 00:14:11,242 --> 00:14:15,693 I have come to get you, Conor O'Malley. 51 00:14:23,408 --> 00:14:26,225 Why don't you run, Conor O'Malley? 52 00:14:26,293 --> 00:14:28,627 Why don't you run for your mother? 53 00:14:31,650 --> 00:14:34,941 You leave her alone. I'm not afraid of you. 54 00:14:50,767 --> 00:14:54,142 I will visit you again on further nights, Conor O'Malley... 55 00:14:54,311 --> 00:14:57,237 and I will shake your walls until you wake. 56 00:14:57,312 --> 00:15:00,966 And then I will tell you three stories. 57 00:15:02,266 --> 00:15:04,535 You're going to tell me stories? 58 00:15:05,304 --> 00:15:09,331 I am. I will tell you three stories. 59 00:15:09,408 --> 00:15:14,485 And when I've finished my stories, you will tell me a fourth. 60 00:15:14,575 --> 00:15:16,298 I don't know anything about stories. 61 00:15:16,384 --> 00:15:19,161 You will tell me a fourth and it will be the truth. 62 00:15:19,340 --> 00:15:22,490 - What are you talking about? - This truth that you hide. 63 00:15:22,597 --> 00:15:24,931 The truth you dream. 64 00:15:24,971 --> 00:15:27,152 - You will tell me your nightmare. - No. 65 00:15:27,303 --> 00:15:30,035 Yes. That will be your truth. 66 00:15:30,203 --> 00:15:32,369 And if I don't? 67 00:15:59,309 --> 00:16:03,733 Oh, Con, I was asleep. 68 00:16:09,110 --> 00:16:12,321 You should be in your own bed, Con. 69 00:16:12,989 --> 00:16:14,951 Five minutes. 70 00:16:15,115 --> 00:16:18,410 - That is not true. - Yes it is. 71 00:16:18,578 --> 00:16:24,332 - Come on, Con. - Just five minutes. I promise. 72 00:16:27,503 --> 00:16:30,257 Five minutes. 73 00:16:35,634 --> 00:16:38,220 Night night. 74 00:17:54,289 --> 00:17:56,791 I respect that, Lizzie, I do. 75 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,247 But the last thing your father would want would be for him to go to America... 76 00:18:00,307 --> 00:18:03,496 to live with some strange woman and her strange child. 77 00:18:03,696 --> 00:18:05,884 We have to discuss this now. 78 00:18:06,052 --> 00:18:09,136 - Hey, Con. - Ah, there's the little man. 79 00:18:09,211 --> 00:18:12,974 - Where did you say you got these? - From a very nice old people's home. 80 00:18:13,138 --> 00:18:16,433 They're clearing it out to make flats and I will be the agent. 81 00:18:16,601 --> 00:18:18,312 Your mother needs a cup of tea. 82 00:18:18,490 --> 00:18:21,051 Green, no sugar. I take mine black. 83 00:18:21,197 --> 00:18:22,631 What do you think, Con? 84 00:18:23,224 --> 00:18:24,596 He loves it. 85 00:18:24,641 --> 00:18:26,028 - Go on. - Okay. 86 00:18:27,195 --> 00:18:29,764 Go on. Try something else. 87 00:18:31,516 --> 00:18:35,023 - I'm only doing this for you. - I do not have this conversation now. 88 00:18:35,191 --> 00:18:37,652 I understand that, but you can not go on like this, Lizzie. 89 00:18:37,820 --> 00:18:40,157 - You have to take some decisions. - I'm not doing that. 90 00:18:50,052 --> 00:18:54,521 Go help Conor with the tea, or I'm literally going insane. 91 00:18:59,362 --> 00:19:02,829 - You and I need to have a talk. - I'm making tea. 92 00:19:02,993 --> 00:19:07,254 - I said I'm making tea. - We need to... 93 00:19:07,418 --> 00:19:09,967 I'm not the enemy, Conor. I'm here to help your mother. 94 00:19:10,131 --> 00:19:12,263 - I know why you're here. - I'm here because... 95 00:19:12,428 --> 00:19:16,396 12 year old boys shouldn't be wiping down counters without being asked to first. 96 00:19:16,564 --> 00:19:20,151 - You want to do it? - Less of your cheek. 97 00:19:20,319 --> 00:19:22,662 She is always sick after her treatments. 98 00:19:22,862 --> 00:19:25,205 She'll be better tomorrow, and then you can go home. 99 00:19:25,373 --> 00:19:29,798 She'll seem better tomorrow. She needs to talk about this with you. 100 00:19:29,962 --> 00:19:31,216 Talk to me about what? 101 00:19:33,429 --> 00:19:37,058 - About you're coming to live with me. - I will never come to live with you... 102 00:19:37,216 --> 00:19:40,567 - Listen to me, Conor, if your mother... - There is no if. 103 00:19:40,735 --> 00:19:44,827 She'll be better and then you can go. 104 00:19:45,913 --> 00:19:48,498 Oh, Lizzie? Lizzie! 105 00:19:48,666 --> 00:19:51,131 My God. Hold on, hold on. 106 00:19:51,296 --> 00:19:54,718 Where's the medicine? Conor! 107 00:19:54,887 --> 00:19:56,141 Conor! 108 00:19:56,305 --> 00:19:59,147 I'm here, I'm here. Take a deep breath. 109 00:19:59,193 --> 00:20:03,317 Conor please. Please, give me the medicine. Hurry. 110 00:20:05,621 --> 00:20:06,806 It's coming. 111 00:20:09,088 --> 00:20:11,508 Here you go, here you go. 112 00:20:14,974 --> 00:20:16,059 That's better. 113 00:20:16,225 --> 00:20:17,896 Deep breath. 114 00:20:19,438 --> 00:20:21,194 Deep breath. 115 00:20:22,696 --> 00:20:26,034 Deep breath. Deep breath. 116 00:20:27,830 --> 00:20:30,419 It is okay. 117 00:20:48,452 --> 00:20:50,237 Just don't touch anything. 118 00:20:50,437 --> 00:20:53,622 Trust me, I'll be doing my very best not to. 119 00:20:56,134 --> 00:20:59,140 Our conversation isn't over, young man. 120 00:21:04,018 --> 00:21:05,572 Oh yes it is. 121 00:21:30,989 --> 00:21:33,411 Mum. 122 00:22:42,245 --> 00:22:44,533 What took you so long? 123 00:22:45,067 --> 00:22:47,597 It is time for me to tell you the first tale. 124 00:22:47,634 --> 00:22:51,261 I don't need a tale. I need a bus ticket for my grandma. 125 00:22:51,425 --> 00:22:53,514 It is time for me to tell you... 126 00:22:53,682 --> 00:22:56,519 Where do you think you are going? I will be listened to. 127 00:22:56,687 --> 00:22:58,507 I am as old as this land, and I will... 128 00:22:58,707 --> 00:23:00,527 What do you know about anything? 129 00:23:00,695 --> 00:23:03,881 I know everything about you, Conor O'Malley. 130 00:23:03,886 --> 00:23:06,453 No you don't. If you did... 131 00:23:06,567 --> 00:23:10,118 You know I don't have time to listen to stupid stories from a stupid tree... 132 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:11,591 that is just a dream. 133 00:23:11,755 --> 00:23:15,599 A dream? What is a dream, Conor O'Malley? 134 00:23:15,763 --> 00:23:19,645 And who is to say that it is not everything else that is a dream? 135 00:23:19,814 --> 00:23:22,234 Never mind. 136 00:23:23,653 --> 00:23:26,079 I came to see you today, because I thought... 137 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:30,624 You thought I might have come to topple your enemies, slay your dragons. 138 00:23:30,625 --> 00:23:32,593 Or at least help me with my grandmother. 139 00:23:32,793 --> 00:23:34,760 All you want to do is tell me stories. 140 00:23:34,860 --> 00:23:38,557 Stories about how I toppled my enemies. 141 00:23:38,725 --> 00:23:41,016 Stories of how I slew dragons. 142 00:23:41,185 --> 00:23:44,443 Let me tell you a tale of when I came walking. 143 00:23:44,607 --> 00:23:47,280 Let me tell you of the end of a wicked queen... 144 00:23:47,448 --> 00:23:52,706 and how I made sure she was never seen again. 145 00:23:57,423 --> 00:23:58,677 Go on then. 146 00:23:59,541 --> 00:24:01,084 Good. 147 00:24:32,447 --> 00:24:34,034 What do you see? 148 00:24:34,198 --> 00:24:36,455 Nothing. There are leafs in the way. 149 00:24:36,619 --> 00:24:40,126 Use your imagination, Conor O'Malley. 150 00:24:40,294 --> 00:24:41,797 Now, what do you see? 151 00:24:45,888 --> 00:24:48,725 - I see a spark. - Yes. And? 152 00:24:48,893 --> 00:24:52,400 No, it's water. It is watercolor. 153 00:24:52,569 --> 00:24:54,307 Keep looking. 154 00:24:56,824 --> 00:24:58,912 - Wow. - Wow, indeed. 155 00:24:59,081 --> 00:25:03,961 Long ago, before this was a town with roads and trains and cars... 156 00:25:04,130 --> 00:25:06,271 - this was a kingdom. - Here? 157 00:25:06,371 --> 00:25:07,986 We don't even have a Tesco. 158 00:25:09,223 --> 00:25:11,727 It was a prosperous kingdom with a wise king... 159 00:25:11,896 --> 00:25:13,980 With one peace for his people... 160 00:25:14,148 --> 00:25:17,406 but peace had come at a price. 161 00:25:17,571 --> 00:25:21,077 The king had lost all three of his sons in battle... 162 00:25:21,246 --> 00:25:23,176 to giants 163 00:25:25,096 --> 00:25:26,781 to dragons 164 00:25:28,258 --> 00:25:31,179 to armies of men led by great wizards. 165 00:25:31,347 --> 00:25:33,252 This all sounds pretty fairytalish. 166 00:25:33,416 --> 00:25:37,491 You wouldn't say that if you heard the screams of a man through by a spear. 167 00:25:42,700 --> 00:25:47,460 The queen wasn't able to bear the loss of all their three sons... 168 00:25:49,465 --> 00:25:51,294 Leaving the king alone in despair, 169 00:25:51,494 --> 00:25:54,723 with the company of his only remaining heir... 170 00:25:54,891 --> 00:25:57,479 his orphaned grandson. 171 00:26:03,531 --> 00:26:05,365 The child was raised as a prince... 172 00:26:05,534 --> 00:26:09,289 winning the love of the kingdom with his scaventry and good heart. 173 00:26:15,801 --> 00:26:19,268 His people loved him. 174 00:26:19,436 --> 00:26:21,102 Our future king. 175 00:26:24,946 --> 00:26:29,956 He was nearly a man when his grandfather took a new wife. 176 00:26:33,962 --> 00:26:36,968 The king felt ill and rumor began to spread... 177 00:26:37,132 --> 00:26:39,056 that she was an evil witch... 178 00:26:39,220 --> 00:26:44,645 That she was bent on taking the throne by herself by poisoning the king. 179 00:26:48,152 --> 00:26:51,996 A few weeks later the king died. 180 00:26:57,591 --> 00:27:01,096 The prince was too young to take the king's place... 181 00:27:01,261 --> 00:27:07,187 So, by law, the queen would rule for another year. 182 00:27:11,195 --> 00:27:13,867 The future was uncertain. 183 00:27:25,721 --> 00:27:30,149 The prince meanwhile had given away his heart. 184 00:27:30,313 --> 00:27:34,658 She was beautiful and smart, and though only a farmer's daughter... 185 00:27:34,823 --> 00:27:38,036 the kingdom smiled on the match. 186 00:27:41,626 --> 00:27:45,887 The queen however, was rather enjoying being queen. 187 00:27:46,051 --> 00:27:50,227 And what better way to remain so, than to marry the prince herself? 188 00:27:50,395 --> 00:27:52,398 What? That's disgusting. 189 00:27:52,563 --> 00:27:55,068 - She was his grandmother. - Step grandmother... 190 00:27:55,236 --> 00:27:58,826 and still a young, beautiful woman herself, don't forget. 191 00:27:58,991 --> 00:28:01,832 The prince, however, didn't like the idea. 192 00:28:06,841 --> 00:28:10,848 He took the farmer's daughter, and they rode away into the night. 193 00:28:13,770 --> 00:28:17,024 They stopped to rest under the branches of a yew tree. 194 00:28:17,192 --> 00:28:19,696 That's you. 195 00:28:19,865 --> 00:28:23,035 The next morning the Prince awoke. 196 00:28:23,203 --> 00:28:26,377 "Arise, my beloved" he said. 197 00:28:26,541 --> 00:28:30,300 But the farmer's daughter did not steer... 198 00:28:31,902 --> 00:28:34,717 Which was when the prince noticed the blood. 199 00:28:34,757 --> 00:28:35,936 Blood? 200 00:28:36,136 --> 00:28:38,315 Someone had killed his beloved in the night. 201 00:28:38,319 --> 00:28:39,488 What? 202 00:28:40,652 --> 00:28:42,823 "The Queen" he cried. 203 00:28:42,992 --> 00:28:46,498 "The queen has murdered my bride." 204 00:28:46,662 --> 00:28:51,171 The villagers, full of fury and vengeance, rose up at the crime. 205 00:28:51,339 --> 00:28:54,429 It was then that I came walking. 206 00:29:17,942 --> 00:29:21,227 The queen was never seen again. 207 00:29:24,816 --> 00:29:26,650 Good. She deserved it. 208 00:29:27,574 --> 00:29:30,801 Now, I don't suppose you can help me with my grandma. 209 00:29:31,146 --> 00:29:33,417 The story is not yet finished. 210 00:29:34,170 --> 00:29:36,994 I took the queen and carried her far enough away 211 00:29:37,194 --> 00:29:40,078 so that the townspeople would never find her... 212 00:29:40,190 --> 00:29:43,986 to a village by the sea, where she began a new life. 213 00:29:44,591 --> 00:29:46,392 But she killed the farmer's daughter. 214 00:29:46,817 --> 00:29:49,056 How can you save a murderer? 215 00:29:49,947 --> 00:29:51,198 You really are a monster. 216 00:29:51,267 --> 00:29:53,821 I never said she killed farmer's daughter. 217 00:29:54,071 --> 00:29:57,689 I only said that the prince said it was so. 218 00:29:58,338 --> 00:30:01,135 The prince never fell asleep that night... 219 00:30:02,088 --> 00:30:05,636 but waited for the farmer's daughter to be lost in her dreams... 220 00:30:06,153 --> 00:30:09,108 and then began his real plan. 221 00:30:10,107 --> 00:30:11,572 What? 222 00:30:12,737 --> 00:30:17,998 He knew her death would start a fire that would consume the queen entire. 223 00:30:22,755 --> 00:30:25,183 That's a terrible story. And a cheat. 224 00:30:25,336 --> 00:30:26,939 It's a true story. 225 00:30:26,940 --> 00:30:29,655 Many things that are true feel like a cheat. 226 00:30:29,976 --> 00:30:32,299 Kingdoms get their princes they deserve. 227 00:30:32,509 --> 00:30:34,822 Farmers' daughters die for no reason. 228 00:30:35,064 --> 00:30:37,959 And sometimes witches merit saving. 229 00:30:38,744 --> 00:30:41,573 Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised. 230 00:30:43,961 --> 00:30:48,891 So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen was no witch after all? 231 00:30:48,972 --> 00:30:52,731 No, the queen was most certainly a witch... 232 00:30:52,895 --> 00:30:56,208 and could well have been on her way to great evil. 233 00:30:56,317 --> 00:30:57,878 Who can say? 234 00:30:57,952 --> 00:30:59,510 Then why did you save her then? 235 00:30:59,572 --> 00:31:03,500 Because what she was not, was a murderer. 236 00:31:05,580 --> 00:31:07,538 She hadn't poisoned the king. 237 00:31:07,923 --> 00:31:10,853 He had merely grown old. 238 00:31:12,098 --> 00:31:13,862 Did the prince ever get caught? 239 00:31:14,034 --> 00:31:16,988 No. He became a much beloved king... 240 00:31:17,681 --> 00:31:21,533 who ruled happily until the end of his long days. 241 00:31:21,623 --> 00:31:23,080 Oh yes. 242 00:31:23,725 --> 00:31:25,010 I don't get it. 243 00:31:25,661 --> 00:31:26,871 Who is the good guy here? 244 00:31:26,951 --> 00:31:29,884 There is not always a good guy, Conor O'Malley... 245 00:31:29,922 --> 00:31:32,011 nor is there always a bad one. 246 00:31:32,036 --> 00:31:34,551 Most people are somewhere in between. 247 00:31:36,366 --> 00:31:39,172 So how is this all meant to save me from grandma? 248 00:31:40,799 --> 00:31:44,059 It is not her you need saving from. 249 00:32:03,995 --> 00:32:05,831 There are always two sides to a story. 250 00:32:05,999 --> 00:32:07,670 Now, how many of you know the saying: 251 00:32:07,835 --> 00:32:13,344 "Stick and stones may break my bones, but words can never touch me?" 252 00:32:14,712 --> 00:32:17,432 That way the next time someone says something to you just remember... 253 00:32:42,803 --> 00:32:44,570 Good, you're home. 254 00:32:45,601 --> 00:32:47,898 Your mum's upstairs. She wants to talk to you. 255 00:32:47,935 --> 00:32:51,295 - What? - Your father's flying in on Sunday. 256 00:32:51,822 --> 00:32:53,912 Dad's coming? From America? 257 00:32:54,618 --> 00:32:56,289 Go on. 258 00:32:56,457 --> 00:32:58,168 She's waiting. 259 00:32:58,334 --> 00:32:59,399 And pack your bag. 260 00:32:59,599 --> 00:33:02,262 You're coming to stay with me for a few days. 261 00:33:03,595 --> 00:33:05,682 Go on. 262 00:33:18,838 --> 00:33:20,834 That tree is amazing. 263 00:33:22,253 --> 00:33:24,378 It's been here for thousands of years. 264 00:33:27,386 --> 00:33:28,551 What do you think? 265 00:33:29,741 --> 00:33:32,412 I think Grandma is trying to turn me into Tina Turner. 266 00:33:34,035 --> 00:33:35,338 She must be a fan. 267 00:33:40,410 --> 00:33:42,289 Why am I going to stay with grandma? 268 00:33:46,494 --> 00:33:48,061 Are you going back to the hospital? 269 00:33:49,471 --> 00:33:52,432 Come here, Con. 270 00:33:56,776 --> 00:34:00,197 This latest treatment is not doing what it's supposed to. 271 00:34:01,869 --> 00:34:03,625 So they're going to adjust it... 272 00:34:04,506 --> 00:34:05,842 try something else. 273 00:34:08,506 --> 00:34:10,397 - That's all? - That's all. 274 00:34:11,596 --> 00:34:13,119 Are you sure? 275 00:34:16,236 --> 00:34:17,775 I'm sure. 276 00:34:19,375 --> 00:34:20,946 Because... 277 00:34:21,709 --> 00:34:23,326 you can tell me, you know. 278 00:34:45,429 --> 00:34:47,286 Everything will be fine, Conor. 279 00:34:49,165 --> 00:34:50,559 You'll see. 280 00:35:37,407 --> 00:35:39,288 Wait up, Conor. Where are you going? 281 00:35:41,051 --> 00:35:43,087 - Don't touch him. - "Don't touch him?" 282 00:35:43,173 --> 00:35:46,313 - With a punch to the face? - I said don't touch him. 283 00:35:48,353 --> 00:35:50,465 O'Malley and I have an understanding. 284 00:35:51,645 --> 00:35:53,533 I'm the only one who touches him. 285 00:35:54,701 --> 00:35:55,976 Isn't that right? 286 00:35:56,953 --> 00:35:58,078 Now tell me. 287 00:35:59,625 --> 00:36:04,149 Why is it that every time I turn around, you're there looking at me? 288 00:36:04,632 --> 00:36:08,277 Getting a bit odd, don't you think? 289 00:36:11,689 --> 00:36:13,031 Sorry, that was a bit harsh. 290 00:36:13,152 --> 00:36:15,128 Life isn't really going your way today, are they. 291 00:36:15,987 --> 00:36:18,160 You picked the wrong spot. 292 00:36:34,983 --> 00:36:36,641 I have a house to show. 293 00:36:37,045 --> 00:36:40,163 I trust you alone here till your father shows up. 294 00:36:40,363 --> 00:36:42,182 I'm not five years old. 295 00:36:44,178 --> 00:36:45,793 This is the correct time. 296 00:36:45,988 --> 00:36:49,166 Not the one on your phone or on the computer, 297 00:36:49,366 --> 00:36:50,955 not even on the news. 298 00:36:51,419 --> 00:36:54,410 That was my mother's, your great grandmother's. 299 00:36:54,496 --> 00:36:57,336 Perfect timekeeping for over a hundred years. 300 00:36:58,103 --> 00:37:00,337 Conor! Pack up your rucksack. 301 00:37:02,350 --> 00:37:05,872 I don't want your father to think that I'm keeping you in a pigsty. 302 00:37:06,374 --> 00:37:07,846 - Not much of that. - No. 303 00:37:08,933 --> 00:37:11,451 When you go to the hospital, your father may 304 00:37:11,651 --> 00:37:14,111 not notice how tired you mother's becoming. 305 00:37:14,293 --> 00:37:17,474 So we have to make sure he does not overstay his welcome. 306 00:37:17,873 --> 00:37:20,183 Not that that's been a historically problem. 307 00:37:20,985 --> 00:37:23,891 No eggs. You already had eggs twice this week. 308 00:37:24,185 --> 00:37:25,607 If you are getting hungry, 309 00:37:25,807 --> 00:37:28,267 there is spinach in the fridge you can steam. 310 00:37:28,398 --> 00:37:30,332 Yeah, sure. 311 00:37:30,501 --> 00:37:31,887 Don't touch anything. 312 00:37:34,424 --> 00:37:37,891 I will do my very best not to. 313 00:38:12,068 --> 00:38:13,568 Get it. 314 00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:48,192 Dad. 315 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,692 Oh. 316 00:40:26,704 --> 00:40:28,524 How are you doing, Con? You look tired. 317 00:40:28,692 --> 00:40:29,816 I'm fine. 318 00:40:29,984 --> 00:40:32,816 Mum's on this new medicine. And it will make her better. 319 00:40:32,984 --> 00:40:35,860 She goes to the hospital every two weeks... 320 00:40:36,024 --> 00:40:40,900 and they pump the medicine into her bloodstream. 321 00:40:41,068 --> 00:40:44,832 She's sick for the next few days, but she's better again. 322 00:40:51,816 --> 00:40:56,476 - Your sister is doing better. - Half sister. 323 00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:58,608 Yeah. 324 00:40:58,776 --> 00:41:00,692 I'd still love you to meet her. 325 00:41:02,148 --> 00:41:05,192 I've been talking with your grandmother about bringing you out to LA. 326 00:41:06,066 --> 00:41:08,916 - You want me to come to LA? - Yeah absolutely. 327 00:41:08,984 --> 00:41:11,346 - You'd like that wouldn't you? - Yeah. 328 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:12,680 We were thinking over Christmas, 329 00:41:12,754 --> 00:41:14,674 that way you can be back here in time for school. 330 00:41:16,748 --> 00:41:18,504 So you mean just for a visit then? 331 00:41:18,704 --> 00:41:20,357 Yeah, but it would be great. 332 00:41:21,289 --> 00:41:23,183 I don't want to live with grandma. 333 00:41:23,383 --> 00:41:26,056 It's an old lady's house with old ladies' things. 334 00:41:26,116 --> 00:41:27,967 Can't touch anything or sit anywhere. 335 00:41:28,167 --> 00:41:30,168 Can't even leave a mess for two seconds. 336 00:41:30,232 --> 00:41:31,232 Conor, I know, but... 337 00:41:31,394 --> 00:41:34,413 I want to have my own room in my my own house with my own things. 338 00:41:34,513 --> 00:41:35,796 Well, you wouldn't have that in America, Conor. 339 00:41:35,820 --> 00:41:37,044 There is barely enough room for the three of us. 340 00:41:37,068 --> 00:41:38,608 - I do not care. - Conor listen... 341 00:41:38,776 --> 00:41:41,360 - She's so strict. - Your family, your life, your friends... 342 00:41:41,524 --> 00:41:45,232 - Her house is like a museum. - Your school, all of it is here, okay? 343 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,080 It would be unfair to take you out of here. 344 00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:48,292 Unfair to whom? Conor. 345 00:42:00,648 --> 00:42:03,484 Doesn't look like your grandmother's home yet. 346 00:42:03,648 --> 00:42:07,648 She sometimes goes back to the hospital after I go to bed. 347 00:42:07,816 --> 00:42:10,316 The nurses let her sleep in a chair. 348 00:42:10,484 --> 00:42:12,027 Hey, just because your grandmother 349 00:42:12,227 --> 00:42:14,360 doesn't like me, doesn't make her a bad person. 350 00:42:14,524 --> 00:42:16,400 She says you're all start and no finish. 351 00:42:18,900 --> 00:42:21,900 Well, she entitled to her own opinion. 352 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,232 How long are you here for? 353 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,068 As long as I can be. 354 00:42:28,232 --> 00:42:29,900 What does that mean? 355 00:42:30,568 --> 00:42:34,692 We don't have a lot of money and Americans don't get a lot of holiday. 356 00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,473 - You're not an American. - No, but I live there now. 357 00:42:38,900 --> 00:42:40,572 I'll come back whenever I need to. 358 00:42:40,772 --> 00:42:42,984 And you're going to come to LA for Christmas. 359 00:42:43,148 --> 00:42:45,668 God no, not in your cramped house where there is no room for me. 360 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:50,920 Why did you come? 361 00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,024 Conor wait. 362 00:43:03,816 --> 00:43:06,024 Conor, I'll see you tomorrow, yeah? 363 00:43:06,192 --> 00:43:08,424 There's still loads of time. 364 00:44:56,648 --> 00:45:00,148 As destruction goes, that was remarkably pitiful. 365 00:45:01,940 --> 00:45:04,360 Now, I've come to tell you the second tale. 366 00:45:04,524 --> 00:45:06,068 Is it as bad as the last one? 367 00:45:06,232 --> 00:45:10,232 It ends with proper destruction, if that's what you mean. 368 00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,360 It's about a man who thought only of himself... 369 00:45:13,524 --> 00:45:16,232 a man who wasn't as generous as he should have been. 370 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,232 A man who gets punished very badly indeed. 371 00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,400 Stories aren't real though. 372 00:45:21,568 --> 00:45:22,900 They don't help anything. 373 00:45:23,068 --> 00:45:25,648 Stories are wild creatures, Conor O'Malley. 374 00:45:25,816 --> 00:45:26,986 When you let them lose, 375 00:45:27,186 --> 00:45:29,068 who knows what havoc they might reek? 376 00:45:29,232 --> 00:45:30,816 Oh yes. 377 00:45:32,860 --> 00:45:35,024 Okay. 378 00:45:35,192 --> 00:45:36,948 Go on then. 379 00:45:37,816 --> 00:45:39,348 Good. 380 00:46:17,987 --> 00:46:19,772 150 years ago... 381 00:46:20,368 --> 00:46:22,170 The future came. 382 00:46:23,436 --> 00:46:26,090 Factories grew like weeds. 383 00:46:27,771 --> 00:46:30,278 Trees fell, rivers blackened... 384 00:46:30,313 --> 00:46:33,228 and the sky choked on smoke and ash. 385 00:46:35,175 --> 00:46:38,677 But there was still green if you knew where to look. 386 00:46:39,668 --> 00:46:42,714 On the edge of this town lived a stubborn man. 387 00:46:43,793 --> 00:46:45,616 Who refused to change. 388 00:46:47,500 --> 00:46:50,332 He daunted on the old ways of medicine... 389 00:46:50,500 --> 00:46:54,916 herbs and barks and concoctions brewed from berries and leafs. 390 00:46:55,084 --> 00:46:58,540 Villagers ever only called him the apothecary. 391 00:46:58,708 --> 00:47:00,792 - The what? - The apothecary. 392 00:47:00,860 --> 00:47:03,069 An old-fashioned name for 'pharmacist'. 393 00:47:03,104 --> 00:47:05,324 Why didn't you just say? 394 00:47:11,118 --> 00:47:13,617 There was also a young parson in this village, 395 00:47:13,817 --> 00:47:15,816 an enlightened man and a kind one... 396 00:47:15,984 --> 00:47:19,816 who just wanted the very best for his congregation. 397 00:47:20,785 --> 00:47:23,959 He preached against the apothecary's use of the old ways... 398 00:47:23,994 --> 00:47:27,112 and the apothecary's foul temper and greed... 399 00:47:27,113 --> 00:47:31,148 made certain some of these sermons fell on eager ears. 400 00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,360 Much as he tried to keep on helping the community... 401 00:47:39,524 --> 00:47:45,360 his business sank which only made him grow bitter 402 00:47:48,148 --> 00:47:52,232 On the parsonage's ground there also lived a yew tree. 403 00:47:53,784 --> 00:47:55,270 That's the hill where you live. 404 00:47:55,305 --> 00:47:57,615 The yew tree is the most important of the healing trees. 405 00:47:57,815 --> 00:47:58,925 Why? 406 00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:03,400 Its berries, its bark, they brum and burn and twist with life. 407 00:48:03,568 --> 00:48:06,734 That can cure almost any ailment. 408 00:48:06,769 --> 00:48:08,247 Really? Anything? 409 00:48:08,282 --> 00:48:12,484 Anything that can be cured if mixed by the right apothecary. 410 00:48:20,484 --> 00:48:23,732 The apothecary wanted the yew tree very badly. 411 00:48:23,900 --> 00:48:27,692 But in order to harvest these things, he would have to cut it down. 412 00:48:27,860 --> 00:48:31,860 And this, the parson would not allow. 413 00:48:38,232 --> 00:48:41,683 The parson had two daughters who were the light of his life. 414 00:48:41,718 --> 00:48:46,148 He was a caring, loving father who would've done anything for their sake. 415 00:48:46,316 --> 00:48:51,568 But one day both little girls were struck by a terrible sickness... 416 00:48:52,415 --> 00:48:54,554 and nothing the parson did helped. 417 00:48:55,136 --> 00:48:59,299 No cure from the more modern doctors, no prayer, nothing. 418 00:49:07,893 --> 00:49:11,391 There was no choice but to approach the apothecary. 419 00:49:13,874 --> 00:49:16,608 "Will you not help my daughters?". The parson begged. 420 00:49:16,776 --> 00:49:20,360 "Will you not save two innocent girls?" 421 00:49:21,822 --> 00:49:24,360 "Why should I?". Said the apothecary. 422 00:49:24,524 --> 00:49:27,916 "You have driven away my business with your preachings... 423 00:49:27,951 --> 00:49:32,144 and you have refused me the yew tree, my best source of healing". 424 00:49:33,148 --> 00:49:36,000 "You may have the yew tree," said the parson. 425 00:49:36,035 --> 00:49:37,891 "I will preach sermons in your favour. 426 00:49:37,926 --> 00:49:41,192 I will do anything only you will save my daughters." 427 00:49:42,801 --> 00:49:46,399 "Would you give up everything you believe in?". Said the apothecary. 428 00:49:46,524 --> 00:49:50,232 "If it would save them, I would give up everything." 429 00:49:50,732 --> 00:49:54,239 "Then there's nothing I can do to help you." 430 00:50:18,516 --> 00:50:21,495 The very next day both of the parson's daughters died. 431 00:50:21,530 --> 00:50:25,493 - What? - And that night I came walking. 432 00:50:25,528 --> 00:50:28,776 Good. He deserves all the punishment he gets. 433 00:50:29,578 --> 00:50:32,679 Indeed. It was shortly after midnight... 434 00:50:32,714 --> 00:50:35,360 That I tore the house of the parson from its very foundations. 435 00:50:35,524 --> 00:50:38,391 The parson? What are you talking about? 436 00:50:38,426 --> 00:50:40,428 The apothecary is the evil one. 437 00:50:40,463 --> 00:50:44,316 He was greedy and rude, but he was still a healer. 438 00:50:44,484 --> 00:50:46,648 The parson, what was he? 439 00:50:50,210 --> 00:50:52,366 A man of faith without faith. 440 00:51:00,451 --> 00:51:02,103 Belief is half of all healing. 441 00:51:02,138 --> 00:51:05,708 Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. 442 00:51:05,743 --> 00:51:08,558 Your belief is precious... 443 00:51:08,559 --> 00:51:14,314 so you must be careful where you put it and in whom. 444 00:51:16,188 --> 00:51:19,189 Tell me, Conor O'Malley, what shall I destroy next? 445 00:51:19,224 --> 00:51:22,223 - What? - It is most satisfying, I can assure you. 446 00:51:22,258 --> 00:51:25,360 Tell me. What should I destroy? 447 00:51:27,739 --> 00:51:29,495 Smack the chimney? 448 00:51:29,530 --> 00:51:30,608 The chimney. 449 00:51:32,594 --> 00:51:33,616 Next? 450 00:51:34,558 --> 00:51:35,628 Throw away their beds. 451 00:51:41,087 --> 00:51:42,382 Smash the furniture. 452 00:51:51,588 --> 00:51:52,860 Break the windows. 453 00:51:52,895 --> 00:51:54,648 Windows. 454 00:51:56,105 --> 00:51:58,068 Break them yourself. 455 00:52:01,376 --> 00:52:02,532 Come one. 456 00:52:13,724 --> 00:52:15,006 Harder, Conor O'Malley. 457 00:52:15,041 --> 00:52:16,824 Come on. Harder. 458 00:52:16,859 --> 00:52:18,075 That's it. 459 00:52:19,369 --> 00:52:20,668 Yes. 460 00:52:22,816 --> 00:52:24,232 Feels good doesn't it? 461 00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:25,624 Yeah. 462 00:54:15,524 --> 00:54:18,691 Grandma. 463 00:54:19,229 --> 00:54:20,855 Grandma. 464 00:54:21,955 --> 00:54:24,356 Grandma, please... 465 00:55:03,170 --> 00:55:05,550 Grandma. 466 00:56:06,019 --> 00:56:08,114 I heard you like them sunny side up. 467 00:56:08,209 --> 00:56:11,948 - What are you doing here? - What do you think? 468 00:56:16,010 --> 00:56:18,419 Your grandmother called very early this morning. 469 00:56:20,822 --> 00:56:22,648 She's gone to the hospital to see your mum. 470 00:56:22,848 --> 00:56:24,674 Your mum's had a bad turn, Con. 471 00:56:27,588 --> 00:56:29,774 I need to see her. 472 00:56:29,777 --> 00:56:31,617 We'll see what happens today, and maybe you can 473 00:56:31,792 --> 00:56:33,606 visit for a little while this afternoon. 474 00:56:39,889 --> 00:56:42,333 I can see how upset you are. 475 00:56:45,124 --> 00:56:48,641 I didn't mean to. I don't know what happened. 476 00:56:48,809 --> 00:56:52,939 - Worse things happen at sea. - What do you mean? 477 00:56:53,107 --> 00:56:54,969 Aren't you going to punish me? 478 00:56:54,972 --> 00:56:57,383 What could possibly be the point in that? 479 00:57:05,163 --> 00:57:09,268 I got to say champ, this is really just amazingly thorough. 480 00:57:15,344 --> 00:57:17,680 Oh, a buried treasure. 481 00:57:18,332 --> 00:57:20,861 These must be those home movies that your mother 482 00:57:21,061 --> 00:57:23,589 used to send when I first moved away. 483 00:57:23,592 --> 00:57:25,370 Why did you move away? 484 00:57:28,664 --> 00:57:30,760 We were young. 485 00:57:30,763 --> 00:57:33,825 Too young, you know? We had big dreams, and... 486 00:57:33,828 --> 00:57:37,140 - What kind of dreams? - Your mother wanted to go to art college. 487 00:57:40,601 --> 00:57:44,455 - Really? - Yeah. She didn't go, but she wanted to. 488 00:57:44,458 --> 00:57:45,826 What happened? 489 00:57:47,873 --> 00:57:49,775 Because mum got pregnant with me. 490 00:57:50,722 --> 00:57:53,997 Mum never regretted having you. You were only ever good news. 491 00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:58,494 And I know that for a fact, because the one thing she regretted was marrying me. 492 00:57:58,497 --> 00:58:02,114 - Why did she marry you then? - Because I'm handsome. 493 00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:12,087 Your mum was amazing. And she still is. And we were in love. 494 00:58:12,637 --> 00:58:16,246 I mean, I still love her. But you will see that... 495 00:58:18,781 --> 00:58:22,600 love isn't enough. It doesn't carry you through. 496 00:58:23,681 --> 00:58:26,592 So you didn't get happily ever after. 497 00:58:26,595 --> 00:58:29,088 No, but that's life, you know? 498 00:58:30,508 --> 00:58:35,880 Most of it just get messier after. And that's alright. 499 00:58:39,831 --> 00:58:42,961 Even I'm happy you turned out like her. 500 00:59:42,321 --> 00:59:45,124 You're telling what to do now? I can pull him in any direction. 501 00:59:45,324 --> 00:59:47,127 You can take him out of school then... 502 00:59:53,316 --> 00:59:54,722 Thank you. 503 00:59:58,474 --> 01:00:00,726 I'm looking for something to eat. You want something, kid? 504 01:00:00,750 --> 01:00:02,225 Stop calling me 'kid'. 505 01:00:02,836 --> 01:00:04,772 Fair enough. 506 01:00:09,067 --> 01:00:11,105 I'm sorry, Lizzie. 507 01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,119 Who was that man in a suit? 508 01:00:20,628 --> 01:00:22,798 Just... 509 01:00:22,966 --> 01:00:24,344 Nothing. 510 01:00:24,509 --> 01:00:27,290 - What happened this morning? - Nothing. 511 01:00:28,870 --> 01:00:30,685 It's fine. 512 01:00:34,398 --> 01:00:38,150 I had a bit of a bad reaction. 513 01:00:43,337 --> 01:00:45,442 There's one more thing they're going to try, 514 01:00:45,642 --> 01:00:47,746 and it's a medicine that's had some really good results. 515 01:00:47,749 --> 01:00:49,972 Why didn't they try it in the first place? 516 01:00:49,975 --> 01:00:52,350 Because this is something you take when the other 517 01:00:52,550 --> 01:00:54,924 stuff hasn't worked the way they wanted it to. 518 01:00:57,355 --> 01:00:58,868 Does that mean it's too late? 519 01:00:59,068 --> 01:01:01,181 No of course it doesn't mean it's too late. 520 01:01:01,349 --> 01:01:02,960 Are you sure? 521 01:01:04,105 --> 01:01:06,893 I believe every word I say. 522 01:01:10,294 --> 01:01:12,802 Belief is half of all healing. 523 01:01:15,699 --> 01:01:20,332 Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. 524 01:01:22,261 --> 01:01:23,395 Yeah. 525 01:01:26,758 --> 01:01:29,911 And you know that tree I'm always going on about? 526 01:01:29,914 --> 01:01:31,377 Yeah. 527 01:01:31,577 --> 01:01:35,239 Well, this drug is made from trees like that. 528 01:01:35,309 --> 01:01:36,727 - It is? - Yeah. 529 01:01:36,896 --> 01:01:38,253 Seriously? 530 01:01:38,453 --> 01:01:41,609 All this time we could have gone out there and just chopped it down. 531 01:01:42,988 --> 01:01:44,640 But not that one. 532 01:01:48,967 --> 01:01:51,186 That one's our friend. 533 01:02:29,300 --> 01:02:30,955 Where are you? 534 01:02:31,965 --> 01:02:33,324 I'm here. 535 01:02:35,742 --> 01:02:38,507 Can you do it? Can you make my mum better? 536 01:02:38,510 --> 01:02:41,672 If your mother can be healed, the yew tree will do it. 537 01:02:44,512 --> 01:02:48,844 - So that's a yes? - You still don't know why you called me. 538 01:02:48,847 --> 01:02:52,592 I didn't call you. And even if I did, it was obviously for mum. 539 01:02:52,595 --> 01:02:54,068 - Was it? - What else? 540 01:02:54,075 --> 01:02:56,577 To listen to idiotic stories that make no sense. 541 01:02:56,580 --> 01:03:01,634 It is not yet time for the third tale. But soon. And after that... 542 01:03:01,637 --> 01:03:04,436 you will tell me your story, Conor O'Malley. 543 01:03:04,439 --> 01:03:06,876 No. 544 01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:10,213 No, not this. That's just a nightmare. 545 01:03:10,382 --> 01:03:12,842 No, please. 546 01:03:16,042 --> 01:03:19,396 That's not my truth. That's just a nightmare. 547 01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:22,734 Nevertheless, this will happen after the third tale. 548 01:03:22,902 --> 01:03:25,108 I want to know what's going to happen with my mum. 549 01:03:26,130 --> 01:03:29,050 Do not waste the precious time that is given you. 550 01:03:29,053 --> 01:03:32,041 Wait. Where are you going? 551 01:03:32,205 --> 01:03:34,848 If you are a tree of healing, then I need you to heal. 552 01:03:36,718 --> 01:03:38,925 And so I shall. 553 01:04:09,064 --> 01:04:14,317 Conor, I'll come back. I promise, alright. And you'll come to LA for Christmas. 554 01:04:14,385 --> 01:04:16,882 I wont leave mum alone for Christmas. 555 01:04:16,945 --> 01:04:20,327 - Conor this medicine your mum's taking... - Is going to make her well. 556 01:04:20,330 --> 01:04:22,384 No, Conor, it probably isn't. 557 01:04:22,387 --> 01:04:24,581 - Yes it is. - No, it's a last stage effort, son. 558 01:04:24,749 --> 01:04:27,169 It will heal her. I know it. 559 01:04:28,198 --> 01:04:30,444 It is the reason it came. It has to. 560 01:04:30,447 --> 01:04:33,193 - Reason what came? - The monster. 561 01:04:33,196 --> 01:04:35,284 - Conor, what? - It comes to 12h07. 562 01:04:35,296 --> 01:04:37,833 At first I thought it was a dream, but there is always... 563 01:04:38,003 --> 01:04:39,565 Stop. It is a dream. 564 01:04:39,734 --> 01:04:42,059 That's all it is. I'm sorry you have to face this... 565 01:04:42,109 --> 01:04:44,371 but you have to be brave. 566 01:04:45,074 --> 01:04:47,827 Do you understand? 567 01:04:48,769 --> 01:04:50,463 Come on. 568 01:04:51,483 --> 01:04:52,886 Come on. 569 01:05:03,155 --> 01:05:05,279 I'll be back as soon as I can. 570 01:05:05,725 --> 01:05:08,375 What if it's not fast enough? 571 01:05:13,868 --> 01:05:14,954 Conor, listen... 572 01:05:15,123 --> 01:05:18,420 - It's okay. - What is okay? 573 01:05:18,588 --> 01:05:20,040 Just... 574 01:05:20,043 --> 01:05:22,234 You don't have to. 575 01:06:30,343 --> 01:06:32,932 Look. Do you see it? 576 01:06:33,096 --> 01:06:34,935 Do you see it? Can you wave? 577 01:06:35,099 --> 01:06:37,940 Can you see him? 578 01:06:38,104 --> 01:06:42,531 And then we wave to grandma. 579 01:06:45,953 --> 01:06:47,788 Hello grandma. 580 01:06:47,956 --> 01:06:50,207 Con, you can say hello to grandma and mum? 581 01:06:50,376 --> 01:06:52,547 Hello Grandma. 582 01:06:52,711 --> 01:06:54,967 Here we go. 583 01:06:55,131 --> 01:06:57,972 Mum has heard this many times. 584 01:06:58,036 --> 01:06:59,875 Are you ready? 585 01:07:00,039 --> 01:07:02,211 Con, come sit here. 586 01:07:02,379 --> 01:07:05,047 Con, look. 587 01:07:05,216 --> 01:07:07,888 - Hello grandma. - Mama... 588 01:07:08,052 --> 01:07:10,056 - one... - Mama. 589 01:07:10,224 --> 01:07:12,503 There we go. 590 01:07:12,506 --> 01:07:15,148 We are doing your picture, grandma. 591 01:07:15,316 --> 01:07:18,153 And then mix it together. 592 01:07:18,321 --> 01:07:19,823 What color is that? 593 01:07:20,392 --> 01:07:21,726 Brown. 594 01:07:24,331 --> 01:07:26,165 - It is a nice lodgy brown. - Brown. 595 01:07:26,334 --> 01:07:29,170 - But we have brown here. - That's true. 596 01:07:29,339 --> 01:07:32,636 What can you see? 597 01:07:32,804 --> 01:07:35,809 What is that? What are those? 598 01:07:35,973 --> 01:07:37,977 What do you... What are these? 599 01:07:38,145 --> 01:07:41,190 - Eyes. - Eyes. That's it. 600 01:07:41,358 --> 01:07:43,946 Life is always in the eyes. 601 01:07:44,460 --> 01:07:47,035 If you get that... 602 01:07:47,038 --> 01:07:49,619 you will be a proper artist. 603 01:07:50,067 --> 01:07:51,942 Yes. 604 01:07:52,336 --> 01:07:55,088 Look. 605 01:07:55,256 --> 01:07:57,091 This is how we draw the eyes in... 606 01:07:57,260 --> 01:08:01,339 because this is where the eyes catch the reflection. 607 01:08:02,392 --> 01:08:06,230 There we see the life in the eyes. See that? 608 01:08:06,398 --> 01:08:11,114 Do it again. It's life. 609 01:08:14,119 --> 01:08:17,540 Maybe if we take a pencil... 610 01:08:17,708 --> 01:08:21,382 and you can draw on that... 611 01:08:21,547 --> 01:08:23,802 Do you want to try it? 612 01:08:23,967 --> 01:08:26,180 Show me how you do it. 613 01:08:38,450 --> 01:08:42,040 Look, Con. 614 01:08:42,204 --> 01:08:47,212 That's his hair and this is his eyebrow. 615 01:08:48,674 --> 01:08:51,347 There's the eyes. 616 01:08:51,511 --> 01:08:54,267 Oh look, there's his mouth. 617 01:08:54,436 --> 01:08:58,106 There's his mouth. He is very angry. 618 01:08:58,274 --> 01:09:00,445 Can you see? 619 01:09:00,610 --> 01:09:03,198 Look at that. 620 01:09:03,766 --> 01:09:07,984 And then we start to make a face. 621 01:09:07,987 --> 01:09:10,041 And then... 622 01:09:10,209 --> 01:09:12,465 there's our monster. 623 01:09:12,629 --> 01:09:14,215 There's the monster. 624 01:09:14,384 --> 01:09:16,972 Look at the monster. 625 01:09:51,399 --> 01:09:53,403 Very slowly. 626 01:09:54,989 --> 01:09:56,992 That's it. 627 01:10:00,666 --> 01:10:02,918 That's it, okay. 628 01:10:13,980 --> 01:10:16,440 Okay, so 30 minutes exam this morning... 629 01:10:16,608 --> 01:10:20,446 and this is all the stuff we've been doing for the last two weeks. 630 01:10:20,614 --> 01:10:25,086 So if you've done your revision, there will be no surprises. 631 01:10:29,629 --> 01:10:32,896 So in a moment I'm going to ask you to turn your pages over. 632 01:10:32,899 --> 01:10:38,973 There will be no talking for the next 30 minutes. I want total silence... 633 01:10:38,976 --> 01:10:43,275 because you are going to use your brains, not your mouths. 634 01:10:43,443 --> 01:10:45,695 So 30 minutes... 635 01:10:45,863 --> 01:10:48,535 Starting now. Good luck. 636 01:11:15,276 --> 01:11:18,737 I think I've finally figures you out. 637 01:11:18,805 --> 01:11:21,308 After all this time. 638 01:11:21,472 --> 01:11:25,899 All you're looking for is someone kick your head in. 639 01:11:26,063 --> 01:11:27,565 But you know what? 640 01:11:27,733 --> 01:11:30,737 I'm not that guy anymore. 641 01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:38,923 Goodbye, O'Malley. 642 01:11:38,956 --> 01:11:41,712 I no longer see you. 643 01:11:41,876 --> 01:11:45,040 Now you're invisible to me too. 644 01:11:46,006 --> 01:11:48,400 I hope your mum gets better. 645 01:12:13,157 --> 01:12:15,180 What took you so long? 646 01:12:15,183 --> 01:12:18,506 It's time for the third tale. 647 01:12:21,306 --> 01:12:24,632 There was once an invisible man... 648 01:12:24,635 --> 01:12:27,815 who was grown tired of being unseen. 649 01:12:27,984 --> 01:12:31,781 It was not that he was actually invisible. 650 01:12:33,571 --> 01:12:37,244 It was just the people had become used to not seeing him. 651 01:12:37,412 --> 01:12:42,251 One day, the invisible man couldn't stand it anymore. 652 01:12:42,419 --> 01:12:47,174 He kept wondering, if no one sees you... 653 01:12:47,342 --> 01:12:50,847 Are you really there at all? 654 01:12:51,015 --> 01:12:53,851 What did the invisible man do? 655 01:12:54,377 --> 01:12:58,458 He called for a monster. 656 01:13:16,506 --> 01:13:19,618 I don't even know what to say to you, O'Malley. 657 01:13:20,888 --> 01:13:24,725 You sent him to hospital. 658 01:13:24,893 --> 01:13:27,645 His parents are threatening to sue. 659 01:13:27,813 --> 01:13:30,865 - It wasn't me. - What was that? 660 01:13:30,868 --> 01:13:33,321 Wasn't me. 661 01:13:36,325 --> 01:13:39,790 I'm not invisible. I'm not invisible. 662 01:13:39,854 --> 01:13:42,600 If you want to be seen, O'Malley, this is not the best way. 663 01:13:42,603 --> 01:13:47,340 I'm not invisible. Did you hear me? I'm not invisible. 664 01:13:47,508 --> 01:13:52,197 School rules dictate immediately exclusion. 665 01:13:53,765 --> 01:13:58,608 But how could I do that and consider myself any kind of a teacher? 666 01:13:59,609 --> 01:14:01,322 Go back to class. 667 01:14:01,325 --> 01:14:05,652 We will talk about this one day, but not today. 668 01:14:06,198 --> 01:14:09,539 You're not punishing me? 669 01:14:09,703 --> 01:14:13,128 What could possibly be the point? 670 01:14:25,893 --> 01:14:28,481 Well, let me give you an example of emotional wellness. 671 01:14:28,649 --> 01:14:33,736 You know how difficult it is sometimes to say no. And how good it feels... 672 01:14:33,904 --> 01:14:38,410 When you finally find the courage to say it anyway. Why is that? 673 01:14:39,137 --> 01:14:41,127 Do you have a moment? 674 01:14:44,294 --> 01:14:45,965 Hoi, wat is is? 675 01:14:46,129 --> 01:14:48,632 We just got a call from the hospital. 676 01:14:48,800 --> 01:14:53,847 I am afraid that Conor's mother is not going to make it. They want him to come there. 677 01:15:22,994 --> 01:15:25,234 Aren't you coming? 678 01:15:26,296 --> 01:15:28,462 I'll be right here. 679 01:16:01,801 --> 01:16:04,417 What did you do to your hands? 680 01:16:10,412 --> 01:16:13,248 It's the talk isn't it? 681 01:16:13,416 --> 01:16:16,629 Everybody wants to have a talk lately. 682 01:16:20,550 --> 01:16:22,469 Con... 683 01:16:22,637 --> 01:16:25,641 Look at me. 684 01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:32,219 I spoke to the doctor this morning. 685 01:16:38,265 --> 01:16:41,447 The new treatment it's... it's not working. 686 01:16:42,456 --> 01:16:45,376 The one from the yew tree? 687 01:16:48,102 --> 01:16:49,358 Yeah. 688 01:16:50,620 --> 01:16:52,824 How can it not be working? 689 01:16:52,886 --> 01:16:57,100 Things just happen fast. Faster than they thought. 690 01:16:57,268 --> 01:17:00,521 - How can it not be working? - I don't know. 691 01:17:00,689 --> 01:17:02,816 It has to. 692 01:17:08,159 --> 01:17:12,329 So what happens now? What's going to be the next treatment? 693 01:17:18,089 --> 01:17:20,584 I'm so sorry. 694 01:17:22,069 --> 01:17:27,306 I've never been more sorry about anything in my life. 695 01:17:37,700 --> 01:17:40,098 It's okay that you're angry, Con. 696 01:17:41,329 --> 01:17:43,185 It really is. 697 01:17:44,581 --> 01:17:48,556 I'm pretty angry too, to tell you the truth. 698 01:17:50,187 --> 01:17:52,135 But Con... 699 01:17:56,872 --> 01:17:59,244 Con, are you listening? 700 01:18:02,566 --> 01:18:04,758 One day... 701 01:18:06,195 --> 01:18:10,402 if you look back and you feel bad for being so angry... 702 01:18:10,405 --> 01:18:16,264 you couldn't even speak to me, you have to know that was okay... 703 01:18:22,677 --> 01:18:25,513 That I knew. 704 01:18:27,966 --> 01:18:34,277 Because I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud. 705 01:18:38,699 --> 01:18:41,860 And if you need to break things... 706 01:18:43,662 --> 01:18:46,551 By God you break them. 707 01:18:47,089 --> 01:18:50,069 Break them good and hard. 708 01:18:50,072 --> 01:18:53,467 And I'll be right there, Con. 709 01:19:04,607 --> 01:19:07,849 I wish I had a hundred years. 710 01:19:12,870 --> 01:19:16,773 A hundred years I could give to you. 711 01:19:43,873 --> 01:19:46,171 Wake up. 712 01:19:47,712 --> 01:19:50,122 Wake up. 713 01:19:50,690 --> 01:19:55,721 Wake up. 714 01:19:55,889 --> 01:20:00,824 I don't care what time it is. You lied. Wake up. 715 01:20:02,398 --> 01:20:05,286 Wake up. 716 01:20:06,462 --> 01:20:08,567 I need you now. 717 01:20:20,755 --> 01:20:24,260 - You are doing yourself more pain. - It did not work. 718 01:20:24,428 --> 01:20:27,388 You said the yew tree would make her better, but it did not. 719 01:20:27,391 --> 01:20:29,385 Make her better. 720 01:20:31,478 --> 01:20:34,073 You're the one who called me, Conor O'Malley. 721 01:20:34,273 --> 01:20:37,610 If I called you, it was to save her. It was to heal her. 722 01:20:37,678 --> 01:20:40,591 - I did not come to heal her. - Yes you did. 723 01:20:40,691 --> 01:20:42,240 I came to heal you. 724 01:20:42,493 --> 01:20:45,665 Me? I'm not the one who needs healing. 725 01:20:45,829 --> 01:20:48,877 How many times do I have to tell you? 726 01:20:49,626 --> 01:20:51,579 My mum's the one who... 727 01:21:05,184 --> 01:21:06,948 Help me. 728 01:21:13,535 --> 01:21:16,683 It is time for the fourth tale. 729 01:21:19,468 --> 01:21:22,357 No, no please. Get me out of here. 730 01:21:22,456 --> 01:21:26,342 - It is time for your nightmare. - I need to get back to my mum. 731 01:21:26,345 --> 01:21:28,596 She is already here. 732 01:21:33,326 --> 01:21:34,532 No. 733 01:21:34,896 --> 01:21:36,485 Mum, get out of there. 734 01:21:36,488 --> 01:21:40,196 It is alright. There is nothing to worry about. 735 01:21:40,364 --> 01:21:42,844 Mum, run. Please, run. 736 01:21:44,578 --> 01:21:45,880 Mum. 737 01:21:53,758 --> 01:21:55,136 Mum. 738 01:22:00,015 --> 01:22:01,309 Conor. 739 01:22:01,477 --> 01:22:02,642 Mum. 740 01:22:05,190 --> 01:22:06,275 No. 741 01:22:06,915 --> 01:22:08,285 Conor. 742 01:22:08,288 --> 01:22:10,990 Mum. 743 01:22:11,154 --> 01:22:12,215 Conor. 744 01:22:12,284 --> 01:22:13,365 Mum. 745 01:22:13,533 --> 01:22:15,328 - Don't let go. - I won't. 746 01:22:17,499 --> 01:22:20,835 - Conor. - Mama. 747 01:22:21,004 --> 01:22:22,213 - Mum. - Conor. 748 01:22:22,377 --> 01:22:24,633 Mum. 749 01:22:24,801 --> 01:22:27,344 Mum, no. 750 01:22:27,513 --> 01:22:30,348 - Mum, no. - Conor. 751 01:22:32,519 --> 01:22:33,769 Mum. 752 01:22:36,773 --> 01:22:38,111 Mum. 753 01:22:40,739 --> 01:22:42,157 No. 754 01:22:44,035 --> 01:22:47,748 Conor. 755 01:22:47,912 --> 01:22:50,463 - Here is the fourth tale. - Get help. 756 01:22:50,466 --> 01:22:52,647 Here is the truth of Conor O'Malley. 757 01:22:52,755 --> 01:22:54,882 Mum. No. 758 01:22:55,050 --> 01:22:57,594 - Mum. - Here is your nightmare. 759 01:22:57,762 --> 01:23:00,057 - Mum. - Conor. 760 01:23:00,221 --> 01:23:01,723 Mum. 761 01:23:03,310 --> 01:23:08,192 Save me. 762 01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:12,406 - Conor. - Mama. 763 01:23:12,574 --> 01:23:15,703 Mama. 764 01:23:20,040 --> 01:23:22,960 Mama. 765 01:23:46,405 --> 01:23:48,763 This is when I wake up. 766 01:23:50,126 --> 01:23:52,793 This is when I always wake up. 767 01:23:53,421 --> 01:23:55,714 The tale is not yet told. 768 01:23:55,882 --> 01:23:58,020 Get me out of here. I need to see my mum. 769 01:23:58,220 --> 01:23:59,758 She is no longer here, Conor. 770 01:23:59,764 --> 01:24:02,206 She fell. I could not hold onto her anymore. 771 01:24:02,659 --> 01:24:03,931 Conor. 772 01:24:04,185 --> 01:24:07,058 - Speak the truth. - No. 773 01:24:07,061 --> 01:24:10,060 You will speak the truth or you will never leave this place. 774 01:24:10,117 --> 01:24:12,555 What truth? I do not know what you mean. 775 01:24:12,581 --> 01:24:15,231 You must tell me the fourth tale, Conor O'Malley. 776 01:24:15,431 --> 01:24:18,080 You must tell me your nightmare before it is too late. 777 01:24:18,248 --> 01:24:21,393 Yes. Tell me, Conor. Tell me the truth. 778 01:24:21,396 --> 01:24:25,590 - It will kill me if I do. - It will kill you if you do not. 779 01:24:25,758 --> 01:24:27,008 Speak the truth. 780 01:24:27,176 --> 01:24:28,961 - No. - The truth, Conor O'Malley. 781 01:24:29,012 --> 01:24:30,974 - Tell me the truth, boy. - No. 782 01:24:31,039 --> 01:24:36,048 - Speak the truth. - No. 783 01:24:36,051 --> 01:24:38,250 Speak the truth, boy. 784 01:24:38,253 --> 01:24:40,403 I want it to be over. 785 01:24:52,082 --> 01:24:56,256 I can't stand knowing she will go. 786 01:24:56,424 --> 01:25:00,594 I want it to be finished. I let her fall. 787 01:25:00,762 --> 01:25:02,933 I let her die. 788 01:25:26,550 --> 01:25:30,219 That was brave, Conor. 789 01:25:30,387 --> 01:25:33,139 You finally said it. 790 01:25:34,725 --> 01:25:36,625 Why didn't it kill me? 791 01:25:37,729 --> 01:25:40,010 I deserve punishment. 792 01:25:40,733 --> 01:25:42,808 I deserve the worst. 793 01:25:43,573 --> 01:25:45,236 Do you? 794 01:25:46,994 --> 01:25:50,747 I've known forever that she wasn't going to make it. 795 01:25:51,416 --> 01:25:54,710 She keep telling me she was getting better all the time... 796 01:25:55,922 --> 01:25:58,301 because that's what I wanted to hear. 797 01:25:59,094 --> 01:26:01,356 And I believed her. 798 01:26:02,515 --> 01:26:04,874 Except I didn't. 799 01:26:08,856 --> 01:26:12,935 And I started to think how much I wanted it to be over. 800 01:26:13,461 --> 01:26:15,731 I couldn't... 801 01:26:15,734 --> 01:26:18,931 I couldn't stand how alone that would make me feel. 802 01:26:19,955 --> 01:26:24,377 Part of you wished it would end even if it meant losing her.. 803 01:26:27,826 --> 01:26:29,716 I let her go. 804 01:26:30,385 --> 01:26:32,880 I couldn't hold on for longer... 805 01:26:33,722 --> 01:26:36,393 but I always let her go. 806 01:26:36,562 --> 01:26:41,568 And that is your truth, Conor O'Malley. 807 01:26:44,488 --> 01:26:46,803 I don't want it to be though. 808 01:26:47,240 --> 01:26:49,061 Now it's for real. 809 01:26:49,395 --> 01:26:51,784 Now she's going to die and it's my fault. 810 01:26:52,208 --> 01:26:55,302 Now, that is not the truth at all. 811 01:26:55,463 --> 01:26:59,409 You were merely wishing for an end of pain. Your own pain. 812 01:26:59,501 --> 01:27:01,507 It is the most human wish there is. 813 01:27:01,604 --> 01:27:02,918 I didn't mean it though. 814 01:27:03,014 --> 01:27:05,980 You did, but you also did not. 815 01:27:09,984 --> 01:27:11,357 How can both be true? 816 01:27:11,525 --> 01:27:15,323 How can a prince be a murderer and beloved by his people? 817 01:27:15,491 --> 01:27:19,363 How can an apothecary be evil tempted but right thinking? 818 01:27:19,437 --> 01:27:23,427 How can invisible men make themselves lonelier by being seen? 819 01:27:23,430 --> 01:27:26,838 I don't know. Your stories never made sense to me. 820 01:27:27,007 --> 01:27:29,843 Because humans are complicated beasts. 821 01:27:30,011 --> 01:27:32,541 You believe comforting lies, while knowing full well 822 01:27:32,741 --> 01:27:35,271 the painful truth that makes those lies necessary. 823 01:27:35,793 --> 01:27:40,525 In the end, Conor, it is not important what you think. 824 01:27:40,689 --> 01:27:44,571 It is only important what you do. 825 01:27:44,739 --> 01:27:46,449 So what do I do? 826 01:27:46,613 --> 01:27:49,786 What you did just now. You speak the truth. 827 01:27:49,954 --> 01:27:51,248 That's all? 828 01:27:51,412 --> 01:27:52,914 You think it's easy? 829 01:27:53,082 --> 01:27:55,882 You were willing to die rather than speak it. 830 01:27:57,945 --> 01:28:01,842 I'm so tired. So tired of all this. 831 01:28:02,011 --> 01:28:04,857 Then sleep. There is time. 832 01:28:04,860 --> 01:28:07,696 Are you sure? I need to see my mum. 833 01:28:08,063 --> 01:28:11,732 - We will both see her tonight. - Will you be there? 834 01:28:11,900 --> 01:28:13,819 Yes. 835 01:28:13,987 --> 01:28:16,590 It will be the final steps of my walking. 836 01:28:20,328 --> 01:28:22,667 How does the fourth story end? 837 01:28:24,666 --> 01:28:26,504 Sleep. 838 01:28:27,505 --> 01:28:29,172 Sleep. 839 01:28:29,340 --> 01:28:31,928 Sleep. 840 01:29:05,000 --> 01:29:08,985 Thank God. Conor! Conor! 841 01:29:11,516 --> 01:29:13,730 I've been out of my mind trying to find you. 842 01:29:13,898 --> 01:29:17,615 - There was something I had to do. - No time. We have to go now. 843 01:29:40,503 --> 01:29:42,468 Damn it. 844 01:29:47,387 --> 01:29:48,807 Grandma. 845 01:29:50,235 --> 01:29:52,284 I'm sorry. 846 01:29:52,449 --> 01:29:56,725 About the living room and the everything. 847 01:29:58,841 --> 01:30:00,846 It doesn't matter. 848 01:30:01,848 --> 01:30:04,270 It doesn't matter. 849 01:30:18,012 --> 01:30:21,165 You know, Conor. You and me... 850 01:30:22,066 --> 01:30:25,432 we're not the most natural fit, are we? 851 01:30:26,386 --> 01:30:28,156 No. 852 01:30:28,165 --> 01:30:29,520 I guess not. 853 01:30:29,584 --> 01:30:31,993 I guess not either. 854 01:30:33,342 --> 01:30:35,693 But we're going to have to learn. 855 01:30:38,105 --> 01:30:41,197 - I know. - You do know, don't you. 856 01:30:41,361 --> 01:30:43,827 Of course you do. 857 01:30:48,379 --> 01:30:51,369 But there is one thing we have in common. 858 01:30:52,597 --> 01:30:54,424 Your mum. 859 01:30:59,743 --> 01:31:02,289 That's what we have in common. 860 01:32:18,015 --> 01:32:19,563 It's okay. 861 01:32:19,728 --> 01:32:21,507 I see you found him. 862 01:32:22,735 --> 01:32:24,270 Thank you. 863 01:32:31,132 --> 01:32:33,093 Hello my darling. 864 01:32:33,891 --> 01:32:36,481 - Mum? - Yes, I'm here. 865 01:32:36,645 --> 01:32:38,880 I'm here. Can you feel my hand? 866 01:32:40,070 --> 01:32:42,496 Conor's here too. 867 01:32:42,660 --> 01:32:44,625 - Is he? - Yes. 868 01:32:50,263 --> 01:32:52,685 Conor. 869 01:33:28,649 --> 01:33:31,573 Here is the end of the tale. 870 01:33:33,578 --> 01:33:35,414 I'm afraid. 871 01:33:35,582 --> 01:33:37,840 Of course you're afraid. 872 01:33:38,883 --> 01:33:42,677 It will be hard. It will be more than hard. 873 01:33:43,863 --> 01:33:47,423 But you will make it through, Conor O'Malley. 874 01:33:48,073 --> 01:33:50,038 You'll stay? 875 01:33:50,870 --> 01:33:53,331 I will be right here. 876 01:34:01,562 --> 01:34:03,466 What do I do? 877 01:34:04,123 --> 01:34:09,555 Now all that is left is for you to speak the simplest truth of all. 878 01:34:31,164 --> 01:34:33,000 I don't want you to go. 879 01:34:33,269 --> 01:34:36,076 I know, sweetheart. 880 01:34:42,131 --> 01:34:44,304 I don't want you to go. 881 01:35:50,447 --> 01:35:52,459 How does the fourth story end? 882 01:35:52,554 --> 01:35:56,736 It ends with a boy holding on tight to his mother. 883 01:35:56,763 --> 01:35:58,604 And by doing so... 884 01:35:58,868 --> 01:36:02,764 he can finally let her go. 885 01:36:45,049 --> 01:36:47,054 Conor. 886 01:36:54,088 --> 01:36:56,510 This is your room now. 887 01:36:56,579 --> 01:36:58,917 I'm making it ready. 888 01:37:03,479 --> 01:37:04,972 Thank you.